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The desktop alerts have been used in a wide variety of
situations such as to notify staff when support centres
are closed, advise the time and nature of IT systems
changes, provide updates about tariffs and exclusions
and communicate sales incentive campaigns.
SnapComms Customer Case Study
Staff surveys have achieved
high response rates
Arthur says that
Calling up Tools of the Trade
in Retail Communications
Virgin Mobile UK is a mobile phone service provider
operating in the United Kingdom (UK) and part of
Virgin Media, the first provider of all four broadband,
TV, mobile phone and home phone services in the
UK. It operates 80 stores, employing 550 staff in retail
outlets and a further 200 in “Lite” pop-up locations.
Sarah Arthur is the Retail Communications Manager at
Virgin Mobile UK. The Retail Communications team is
responsible for employee communications across all
Virgin Mobile retail outlets. The team needs to ensure
that key internal messages are delivered to retail staff in
a timely manner and that they can access operational
information — new packages and special offers, company
news, IT notifications, internal campaigns and requests
for feedback — regardless of location or desktop
environment.
Virgin Mobile was relying on email and its intranet for
communicating with retail staff. They needed to continue
to work with their existing employee communication
channels and systems but they also wanted to explore
ways of delivering push communications which their core
systems couldn’t do.
Reminding retail staff about
mobile phone package exclusions
Stores have reacted well to the tools and it’s
simple and easy for them to receive
information. This has been achieved through
the Retail Communications team controlling
the level of communication so that staff are not
bombarded. They have ensured that the tools
are not over-used and that they do not step
outside users’ expectations.
The team decided it was
“better to look for a bespoke
tool for our needs.”
Virgin Mobile implemented the SnapComms
internal communications software in 2008
and is using Desktop Alerts, Desktop Tickers,
Staff Surveys and Internal
Newsletters. Arthur confirms that
“SnapComms is a key tool for
sending information to stores.”
It is now their main retail communication
channel and vital to operations, as the
information it conveys to staff enables Virgin
Mobile to trade very day.
Arthur explains that
“store staff on the shop floor needed
something that popped up in
whatever tool they were using and
SnapComms gave us that ability. It is
the tool we use to push information
to store staff.”
“SnapComms is just an
accepted way for staff to receive
communications.”
Acknowledging and rewarding
high-performing sales staff
While each of the SnapComms’ employee
communication channels that Virgin Mobile is using
can be used in isolation, they do integrate seamlessly.
For example the staff survey is used to get feedback
and views from stores and can be distributed in
combination with a desktop alert, directing employees
to further information and the link to the survey. Store
managers are very supportive of the staff surveys and
understand their importance in getting information
back from the stores to head office, and it’s not
unusual to achieve 100% response rates from these.
SnapComms is an employee communications
software company that helps organizations
communicate more effectively with their
staff. The software is used by
communications, IT, HR, security and other
business units across multiple industries worldwide. It has numerous applications, which
enable organizations to cut through information
overload and communicate effectively
with employees.
SnapComms was established in 2007. It now
has more than 200 customers and resellers in
North America, Europe, Southeast Asia,
Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, the
Caribbean and South America. SnapComms
has headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand,
offices in the United States and United
Kingdom and a data center in Toronto, Canada.